the big yellow taxi takes their "girl" away. Cue ironic applause. We admit that Duritz’s vocals are actually pretty good, and the instrumentation, as is usually the case with Counting Crows ...

THE Crows get their talons into the Joni Mitchell classic, with a little help from Vanessa Carlton. A hard song to get wrong, the rock guitar and American male vocal donét do it a disservice.

Who could have predicted in the mid-'90s Counting Crows' slow ... A drum machine and string fuelled cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" did nothing to help, and then there was "Accidentally ...